# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-lundstrom
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:28:09.370Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-lundstrom"
name: "Carl Lundström"
slug: "carl-lundstrom"
description: "Carl Ulf Sture Lundström was a Swedish businessman and political activist. He founded Rix Telecom, which provided services and equipment to torrent tracker The Pirate Bay from 2003 to 2005. Lundström was one of the defendants in The Pirate Bay trial and was charged with \"accessory to breaching copyright law\". He was found guilty and ultimately sentenced to four months in prison. He and his co-defendants were jointly fined 46 million Swedish krona."
tagline: "Swedish businessman and activist (1960–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carl_lundstrom.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1960-04-13"
deathDate: "2025-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.9
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.301730666666666
  currentAttention:     3.607142857142857
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5531139/"
    handle:    "nm5531139"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lundstr%C3%B6m"
    title: "Carl Lundström"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lundstr%C3%B6m_(Unternehmer)"
    title: "Carl Lundström (Unternehmer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lundstr%C3%B6m"
    title: "Carl Lundström"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lundstr%C3%B6m_(liikemies)"
    title: "Carl Lundström (liikemies)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lundstr%C3%B6m"
    title: "Carl Lundström"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lundstr%C3%B6m"
    title: "Carl Lundström"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lundstr%C3%B6m"
    title: "Carl Lundström"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lundstr%C3%B6m"
    title: "Carl Lundström"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q332367"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1670238"
    title: "Carl Lundstrom"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump